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On the evening of 6th-7th of December maintenance will be carried out on the Northseaweather server, which will unfortunately involve a short outage of our service between 11:30 UTC on the evening of the 6th and 04:00 UTC on the morning of the 7th, however within this window we expect the service to be unavailable for less than 60 minutes.

We will monitor the situation and post any updates here on our off-site noticeboard.

To maintain PCI compliance of our website, we have as of today removed support for TLSv1 SSL connections to the website. This will only affect users who are using old non compliant browsers or users of windows 7 that are not fully updated.

If you do experience problems please ensure that Windows 7 has Service Pack 1 installed and that all recommended updates have been installed. Please also ensure that you are using an updated browser that uses PCI compliant connections to the web.

At this time the server hardware upgrade is complete. There are several issues being addressed by server admins. We are currently experiencing delays with updates to forecasts. The Midnight issue is now active and I anticipate the 0600GMT issue will be available around 0700 in the morning.

The NorthSeaWeather webserver will have a full hardware upgrade while being re-located to our server administrators new Data Centre.

Synchronization of data between the servers will commence around 2000UTC on Monday 19th.
Once the old and new servers are synchronized there will be a period of downtime as network re-configuration is carried out. There may be delays in the forecast updates after syncronization commences and the completion of the network switchover. It is advisable that users retain a printed version of the 1800UTC forecast isue as backup during this time.

If network administrators encounter any problems during the switchover we will keep you informed via our facebook or wordpress blog and Twitter account. We will inform you once the transfer has been completed and operations return to normal.
Thank you for your cooperation and patience.
Best regards
Dave Paterson
NorthSeaWeather

The Webserver hardware update is now completed. There remain issues with server configuration which are currently being addressed by technical support. I will update with further information as it becomes available.

On Friday 7th April 2017 the NorthSeaWeather Website Server will have a hardware upgrade. This work will require some downtime as follows.
On Thursday 6th April 2017 we will begin data syncronisation shortly after 2100UTC and the hardware will be swapped at some point early the following morning, between 0500UTC and 0800UTC.
The actual hardware replacement normally takes around 2 hours, during this time the website will be unavailable.
Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Updates on progress during the outage will be posted on our facebook and wordpress pages.